After a period of four days which saw more than 120 rockets fired by Gaza terrorists at Israeli cities, causing injuries and endangering the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens, the IDF has launched Operation ‘Pilar of Defense‘ with the aim of hampering the terrorist organizations’ rocket launching and weapons build up capabilities.”
IDF Spokesperson told The Algemeiner that “the operation began about an hour ago with a pin-point strike on Hamas terror chief al-Jabari”, adding that “since then…we have targeted about 20 different sites in the Gaza strip focusing specifically in long-range rocket capabilities that have been developed in Gaza.”
We’ll keep you posted on the Guardian’s coverage of the operation as it develops.
You can follow The Muqata who’s live blogging on the operation. Our Twitter feed for updates is here.
May it be swift and successful
Reuters reports that a child was wounded in an Israeli airstrike:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/11/15/worldupdates/2012-11-14T173118Z_4_BRE8AD0WL_RTROPTT_0_UK-PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-HAMAS&sec=Worldupdates
“Nat”,
Where has your omnipresent “reporting” been, when over 120 rockets & mortars have been launched at Israel?
Nuts thinks Israelian children aren`t worth to be defended.
Fritz, all both Israeli and Palestinian children and civilians have the right to life and to be protected from violence.
Don’t you agree?
This is the reality of war, friz: civilians dying.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/world/middleeast/israeli-strike-in-gaza-kills-the-military-leader-of-hamas.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Then, Nuts, tell your buddies to cease with committing crimes against humanity by firing rockets out of civilian areas as human shields strategy at civilian areas.
As you never condemmed these double crimes of Palestinians against international lwa and humanitarian law, you side along terrorists.
All your abuse and perverting of terms and notions of humanity and law is well noticed, little nutty terrorist.
Nat this is for you:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/southern-israel-under-fire-air-force-strikes-terrorist-targets-in-gaza/
As the fighting goes on, it appears that in the war taking place on social networks, Hamas has resorted to faking casualties. The organization (using Twitter handle @AlqassamBrigade) uploaded pictures of civilians injured in the Syrian civil war, claiming they were hurt by Israel’s airstrikes in Gaza.
In an interesting twist, a number of Syrian opposition supporters called Hamas out for recycling the pictures, but noted they were doing so in order to help in their war with Israel.
Lost in translation: In Hebrew the name of the operation is “Amud Anan”, which literally is “Pillar of Cloud”, but accurately translates as “Pillar of Smoke”, in reference to the pillar of smoke that went before the Israelite camp in the Sinai desert. How did it switch to “Pillar of Defense” in English?
You beat me to it. (I thought I must have been mishearing what they’ve been saying on the radio.)
I am Sure that Al-Guardians reporting of israel taking out the terrorists and their rocket facilities in gaza will be down to the usual AL-Guardian one sided inaccurate fact free substandard reporting continue to give us the facts as opposed to Al-Guardian’s fantasy